AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Work Ability and Return to Work - Second Edition Print this pagePrint this page
AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Work Ability and Return to Work - Second Edition
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Risk, capacity and tolerance. Once understood, these three return to work-related issues can help guide physicians through work ability and work cases for numerous diagnoses and body systems. Structured with these themes in mind, this easy-to-read publication includes the latest medical literature reviewed by experts and step-by-step guidance to help negotiate return to work cases.

Practical features and second edition updates include:

  • Four new chapters: Gastrointestinal, Genitourinary, Obstetric and Hematology-Oncology
  • Updated approaches and references from more than 20 new contributors
  • Implications of unemployment, medication, work aspects and driving
  • Forms that can be used to communicate return to work guidelines
  • Disclaimers to use when writing return to work guidelines
  • Tips on negotiating with patients
  • Current science on functional capacity evaluations
  • Chapters organized by body system, making it easy to use as a reference text for a particular system or diagnosis
  • Tables contain recommended disability durations by diagnosis
  • The Cardiopulmonary chapter has been divided into separate cardiac and pulmonary chapters
  • A new chapter featuring international perspectives on return to work

    Ideal for:

  • Physicians, primarily orthopedists, neurosurgeons, and primary care physicians
  • Nurse case managers
  • Nurse practitioners and physicians' assistants who function as primary care providers
  • Lawyers involved in claims handling
  • Disability insurers
  • Workers' compensation administrators
  • Human resource managers